The highroad : being the autobiography of an ambitious mother.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ambitious Mother.

Hazenplug, Frank, 1874-1931., Binding designer.

H.S. Stone & Co., Publisher.

Stromberg, Allen & Co., Printer.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West Virginia--Fiction.

West Virginia.

Rural families--Fiction.

Rural families.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Genre:

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1904.

Old Style types (Type evidence)

Serifs (Type evidence)

Laid papers (Paper)

Physical Description:

289 p. ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

High road

Place of Publication:

Chicago : H.S. Stone & Company, 1904.

Summary:

"Rags-to-riches" account of a mother born on a farm in West Virginia shortly before the Civil War and anxious to see her daughters marry well.

Notes:

"Printed by Stromberg, Allen & Co., Chicago, in Modernized Old Style and Caslon types on laid paper"--Kramer.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth with border and road design in lighter green, sunburst and lettering in yellow, designed by Frank Hazenplug.

Athenaeum copy: "Bound in olive-green cloth, lettering and landscape in green and white on front cover; lettering in white on spine; circular monogram on white ground on back"--Kramer.

Athenaeum copy: Stamped on t.p.: "Received Jun 13 1904, The Athenaeum."

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

Cited in:

Allen, Sue. Decorated cloth in America, p. 88

Kramer, S. History of Stone & Kimball, 305

Minsky, Richard. American decorated publishers' bindings, 1872-1929 (electronic resource), v. 3, pg. 8

OCLC:

5001835